Fence



(No Model.)

B. L. WHITTINGTON.

FENCE.

No. 353,903. Patented Dec. 7, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BEES LITTLETON WHITTINGTON, OF BEDFORD, IOWA.

FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 353,903, dated December 7, 1886.

Application filed April 21, 1886. Serial No. 199,641.

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5% or palings E E i? F G are inserted.

The post A is provuled with threaded hookrods H I J, which rest in seats K K K made through thepost from edge to edge, said hookrods H I J being provided with tighteningnuts L, which are turned up by means of a wrench to stretch the chain stringers and the chain and wire stringers, and also to tighten and loosen them when necessary to provide for contraction under cold and expansion under heat. v

p The links of the chains are tightened around the palings or pickets by compressing the links, except where it is desirable or necessary to provide a gateway or passage for small stock and poultry. At such points the links embrace the pickets loosely, so that the latter may be raised up in the links or lifted therefrom entirely to form the desired passage for small stock and poultry.

The chain stringers are arranged one near the upper end and one near the lower ends of the pickets, and where it is desired to form a gateway an intermediate chain is used, as shown at Z. By having this intermediate stringer.

or to turn a use of posts.

which sink.

I i I lillStii out 0i form a gateway they will be held in the links of the said intermediate chain. desirable, a wire may be used intermediate of the chains throughout the fence, for the purpose of adding strength to the structure.

to su' orra or. the ouler f ends, 53in directions and hooked over the upper chain (N0 model.)

lllllllllllll Ill lillllllll lh lilh hi the lawn chin to When it is One sect-ion of this xvire is indicated at T, Fig. 1.

In cases where in is desired to construct. the

fence to confine oultr the oses lon er and long ickers P are ulade are enlployed at WX as hook s d (1 being Dentin opposite As a modification of this wire stay, the wire a is passed through the eye of stake c, and then passed around the picket above the upper link, through which the picket passes, and is brought down to about the middle of the wire, the lower end being brought up to about the middle of the wire, and the two ends are tied by bending them around the wire in any convenient manner,preferab1y,however, as shown. Staples dare used to secure the links tothe pickets at the points where the stays are used, also at other points where they may be necessary. The stays hold the chains in such manner as to cause them to follow the contour of the ground corner at any angle without the The palings or stakes F F, at the points where the stays or braces come, rest on cast-metal blocks or feet f, having points g,

These blocks or feet f prevent these palings F F from sinking into the ground, and also prevent them from rotting.

When it is desired to remove the fence from ICO one location and erect itin another, the fence may be detached from the posts and rolled up in sections and loaded for hauling to such place of erection, Where it may be again erected with very little trouble.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

The combination vith the fence-post and the stretcher-post connected by chain stringers, of

the chain and Wire stringer intermediate of the 

